{"id":12846,"date":"2026-04-10T21:18:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T21:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/?p=12846"},"modified":"2026-04-10T21:18:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T21:18:18","slug":"young-and-the-restless-actress-dies-at-66-after-devastating-diagnosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/?p=12846","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Young And The Restless\u2019 actress dies at 66 after devastating diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dee Freeman\u2019s life unfolded like the roles she chose: layered, unflinching, and deeply human. From a \u201cdare\u201d that led her into the Marine Corps to more than 80 stage productions and a steady television career, she built herself through discipline and heart. Colleagues remember a quiet power that filled every room, a woman who didn\u2019t need to demand respect because she already had it. Her work on Seinfeld, ER, Dexter, Shameless, NCIS: Los Angeles, The Young and the Restless, and Sistas was only part of the story; the rest lived in the people she lifted up along the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In her final chapter, she kept creating, turning her one-woman show into a novel, still chasing truth through art even as cancer advanced. To her children, Amber and Shane, she was not a celebrity but a compass. Her simple refrain\u2014\u201cCan\u2019t complain\u201d\u2014captures a life lived without self\u2011pity, only purpose. Dee Freeman leaves behind a legacy of courage, craft, and love that will echo long after the credits fade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dee Freeman\u2019s life unfolded like the roles she chose: layered, unflinching, and deeply human. From a \u201cdare\u201d that led her into the Marine Corps to more than&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12847,"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12846\/revisions\/12847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodarticles.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}